Provincial Hershey Meet Gets Record Attendance
Over 300 youth from across New Brunswick competed in the June 24th Hershey Provincials at the Canada Games Stadium in Saint John. It was a fantastic meet with exciting races in all age groups. The top six athletes in each of the events are invited to participate in the Atlantic Hershey Championships to be held on Sunday July 9th in Dieppe.
Hershey Officials for the North American Final will compare times for top finishers at Atlantics to the results from other Region 6 meets held in Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Newfoundland, Rhode Island and Vermont and select the top person for each event.
They will select a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 25 children from the Atlantic Provinces (9 - 14 years of age) to attend the North American final to be held in Hershey, Pennsylvania in mid-August. All expenses for the event are funded by the Hershey Chocolate Company.

Check out the full results: Results
See Photos of the meet at: Photos
For registration information about the Atlantic Final go to: Atlantic Final

Complete meet results for the Legion Provincial meet are available here.

Jun 6 2006 - Scott Simpson Canadian Champion! - The 1

Scott Simpson Canadian Champion! - The 10000m Canadian Championships (held separately from the Canadian Senior Championships to be held in Ottawa in August) were run this past Sunday in the Abbotsford Lafarge International Track Classic in BC. Scott Simpson from Sackville NB finished third in the race behind two Mexicans, thus claiming the Canadian Champion title in 29:51.04. Only 0.75 seconds separated the top 3 Canadians.

Scott's time is actually a minute and a half faster than the NB record, but as he resides in Victoria BC and is a member of Athletics BC, the NB record should not be validated...

NBIAA Track and Field Championships - Despite the cold, wet weather this year's NBIAA Provincial Track and Field Championships still saw six new NBIAA records being set. New records were set by: Robbi Daley in the junior girls 400m hurdles with a time of 70.30 seconds; Lydia Frost in the junior girls 800m with a time of 2:18.88; Geneviève Lalonde in the junior girls 1500m with a time of 4:49.24; Barry Britt in the junior boys 3000m with a time of 9:01.62; Reid van Drecht in the senior boys 400m hurdles with a time of 58.29 seconds; and Andrew Blair in the senior boys shot put with a throw of 13.93 metres.

In the battle for team banners, Fredericton High School won the AAA banner, Bonar Law won the AA banner and McAdam won the A banner.